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Tribe II. FRAXIME.^. Fruit a samara. Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Leaves 

 pinnate. 

 3. FRAXINUS. Flowers in lateral and teririnal panicles. Calyx minute or rarely want- 

 ing. Trees. 



Tribe III. PORESTIERE^aS. Fruit a drupe. Flowers dioecious or perfect, apeta- 

 lous. Leaves simple. 

 i. FOKBSTIEIIA. Flowers mostly dioecious, from scaly axillary buds. Shrubs. 



1. OLEA, Tourn. Olive. 



Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla short-salvcr-forin, 4-lobed. Stamens 2. Style 

 short. Stigma globose or 2-lobed. Drupe mostly 1-seeded, oily. — Trees or 

 shrubs, with opposite coriaceous entire leaves, and small white fragrant flowere, 

 in axillary racemes or panicles. 



1. O. Americana, L. Smooth; leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, nar- 

 rowed into a petiole ; racemes compound, shorter than the leaves ; flowers 

 polygamo-dioeeious, bracted ; drupe ovoid, dark purple. — Light soil, near the 

 coast, Florida to North Carolina. March and April. — A shrub or small tree, 

 with whitish bark and evergreen leaves. Drupe as large as a pea, bitter and 

 astringent. 



2. CHIONANTHUS, L. Fringe-Tree. 



Calyx small, 4-cleft. Corolla wheel-shaped, 4-parted, with long and linear 

 lobes. Stamens 2-4, included. Style very short: stigma notched. Drupe 

 fleshy, 1-seeded. — A shrub, with oblong entire deciduous leaves, and delicate 

 white flowers in slender axillary panicles, appearing with the leaves. 



1. C. Virginica, L. — Light soil, Florida, and northward. April and 

 May. — Shrub 6° -10° high. Leaves smooth or pubescent, narrowed into a 

 petiole. Panicles longer th.an the leaves, leafy-bracted. Flowers on slender 

 drooping pedicels. Corolla-lobes linear, 1' long. Drupe ovoid, purple. 



3. FRAXINUS, Tourn. Ash. 



Flowers dioecious and (in our species) apetalous. Calyx 4-lobed or toothed, 

 minute, sometimes wanting. Stamens 2 - 4 : filaments shorter tiian the large 

 anthers. Stigma 2-clcft. Fruit (samara) dry, winged above, 1-2-seeded. Co- 

 tyledons elliptical. Radicle slender. — Trees. Leaves petiolcd, odd-pinnate, 

 deciduous. 



* Fruit naked and terete, or harehj margined and 2-edged at the base, luinqed above : 

 leaflets 7-9, stalked. 

 1- P. Americana, L. (White Asii.) Branches and petioles smooth; 

 leaflets ovate-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, entire, or slightly serrate 

 above, smooth on the upper surface, pubescent or glaucous beneath ; fruit terete, 

 striate, dilated at the apex into a cuncate-lincar or lanceolate obtuse or notched 

 wing. (F. acuminata and F. juglandifolia, Lam ) — Swamps, Florida to Mis- 



